{{data.pair|Text|&ldquo;In 1999, as the nation was still coming to grips with the [[1999 Columbine shooting|tragedy at Columbine High School]], then-House Majority Leader [[Tom DeLay]] (R-Texas) took to the floor to identify what he saw as the real culprit: science classes. “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial soup,” DeLay said. Young people learn modern biology, DeLay said, which in turn makes them feel insignificant, which in turn leads to violence.&rdquo; And now, stepping up to the plate less than 24 hours after the [[2007 Virginia Tech shootings]] is [[creationist]] [[Ken Ham]], who [[science destroys morality|blames science]] and legalized [[abortion]] for this tragedy as well: &ldquo;The more such a philosophy permeates the culture, the more we would expect to see a sense of purposelessness and hopelessness that pervades people’s thinking. In fact, the more a culture allows [[abortion|the killing of the unborn]], the more we will see people treating life in general as ‘cheap.’”&rdquo;}}<noinclude>

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<let name=data index=Text>&ldquo;In 1999, as the nation was still coming to grips with the [[1999 Columbine shooting|tragedy at Columbine High School]], then-House Majority Leader [[Tom DeLay]] (R-Texas) took to the floor to identify what he saw as the real culprit: science classes. “Our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes who are evolutionized [sic] out of some primordial soup,” DeLay said. Young people learn modern biology, DeLay said, which in turn makes them feel insignificant, which in turn leads to violence.&rdquo; And now, [[2007-04-16 How Could a Loving God|stepping up to the plate]] less than 24 hours after the [[2007 Virginia Tech shootings]] is [[creationist]] [[Ken Ham]], with a totally bogus argument [[science destroys morality|blaming science]] and legalized [[abortion]] for this tragedy as well.</let>